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A Page is Worth A Thousand Worlds: A Conversation with Michelle Chesner

18Forty Podcast

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The Book Foliatedata

There's been controversies every a dozen or so years about changing what's known as the surs hada, the set up of the page. Is that something unique in the jewish community, that we become like, so to speak, attached to the actual look of the page? Like, are there other religious communities who have books where the very layout, the magination, has a communal or mystical significance? I know that the there are ther aspects of the coran, but i don't, i don't know enough about it. There is something incredibly beautiful about that.

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